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Today’s my last day at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. That’s both bad and good. It’s bad because, while I spotted hundreds of cool gadgets and gizmos, I missed at least twice as many due to the sheer size of the show. The good part is that I’ll soon be back home with my wife, dogs and gaming systems to comfort me. Plus I think I’m coming down with a cold. At any rate, yesterday I tackled the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall to see what it had to offer.
t is now possible to buy a low-end 3D printer for $1,500:
We have been developing the UP! printer for more than one year, it is completely based on our own efforts, we have not used open-source solutions for this design. We understand and follow the RepRap and Fab@home projects with great interest, however these designs follow a quite different direction than we have chose for the UP! printer development.
You can see the printer in action in this video…
This weekend we (the Brain family + Grandpa) went to the Maker Faire in Durham, NC. Compared to the big Maker Faires in San Francisco, this was a small event. But it still contained the essence of any Maker Faire – people with a DIY mindset showing off their work, often highly technical. By far [...]
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